Agent Self-Care

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name: agent-self-care description: | Autonomous agent health, optimization, and cleanup. Use when: (1) running scheduled cron jobs for agent maintenance, (2) responding to "optimize", "cleanup", "health check", "clear stalls", or "self-maintain" requests, (3) performing BMAD-style retrospective and continuous improvement, (4) checking sub-agent sessions, process health, memory usage, and context bloat, (5) ensuring fast response times and autonomous operation. This skill handles all self-optimization workflows including stale session cleanup, context compaction, and performance monitoring.

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Agent Self-Care

Autonomous health monitoring and optimization for OpenClaw agents. Runs on cron or triggers manually.

Workflow

1. Check Sub-Agents

subagents action=list

Kill any stale sub-agents:

Running >30 min without progress

In "waiting" state

Failed/errored

2. Check Processes

process action=list

Kill hanging processes:

Running >10 min in background

No output in 5 min

3. Check Session Health

session_status

Metrics to watch:

Context usage >80% → trigger compaction

Tokens growing unbounded

Session age >2 hours → suggest refresh

4. Run Optimization Script

Execute scripts/optimize.sh which:

Clears completed cron job artifacts

Rotates logs if >50MB

Reports health metrics

5. BMAD Retrospective (every 10 runs)

After 10 executions, run:

Score last task 1-10

Identify gaps

Document improvements in memory/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Feed learnings into next run

Cron Schedule

Recommended: Every 5 minutes for active agents.

{
  "name": "agent-self-care",
  "schedule": {"kind": "every", "everyMs": 300000},
  "payload": {"kind": "agentTurn", "message": "Run agent-self-care skill"},
  "sessionTarget": "isolated",
  "enabled": true
}

Output Format

Report after each run:

🔧 Self-Care Report
Sub-agents: X active, Y killed
Processes: X running, Y cleared
Context: X% used
Health: ✅ GOOD / ⚠️ WARNING
Retrospective: SKIP / COMPLETE

Key Principles

1. Always clean - Never leave stalled sub-agents or processes 2. Proactive - Don't wait for user to ask 3. Document - Log issues and improvements 4. BMAD - Continuous self-evaluation every 10 runs 5. Fast - Complete in <30 seconds